Buying Property in Wimberley, Texas Map Wimberley was designated one of "America's Ten Best Small Towns" by Travel Holiday Magazine. If you have any interest at all in nature, the Wimberley area is sure to arouse your curiosity. The unique combination of geology, climate, and continental location have provided enough diversity and surprises to make anyone who takes a close look at the area appreciate the difference. This region of Central Texas can boast over 100 unique species. That fact, combined with its location at a biological crossroads makes the Hill Country very important in man's attempt to maintain biological diversity and insuring a healthy planet. Eastern plant species such as Virginia live oak, bald cypress, dwarf palmetto, and yaupon grow in conjunction with western species like the Ash juniper, cedar elm, Mexican buckeye, and persimmon. Mesquite and acacia invade from the south while many of our native grasses and flowers are representatives of the Great Plans. Silk tassel, mock orange, bracted twist flowers, and Texas wild rice are just a few of the plants that have evolved here and nowhere else. The forces of nature have been working here to produce an ecosystem unlike any other on earth. The Texas Hill Country is so unique that it is included in the Nature Conservancy's "Last Great Places" program. Through this program, land is acquired for preservation of ecosystems that have something to offer the rest of the world but are in danger of disappearing. The population of this region has tripled in twenty years while Wimberley has grown ten fold. Urban and suburban land use are claiming the Texas Hill Country at an alarming rate. The eroded limestone topography of the region has provided a whole subterranean ecosystem that is unseen by most of us but important all the same. Aquifers that supply our springs and caves lie beneath the surface here, supplying life to many cave creatures. The bat population of the Hill Country is significant because of its caves. For the rock hound, the limestone topography yields an endless amount of Cretaceous fossils, evidence of the millions of years this area was covered by a shallow sea.